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Dr. Picart was an invited speaker at a NATO-sponsored advanced workshop at Jerusalem, Israel in November, 2014.View Photo Album

Dr. Picart passed the July 2013 Florida Bar Exams and was sworn in by Judge Robert Roundtree, Chief Judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit of Florida on September 27, 2013 in Gainesville, Florida.View Photo Album

Dr. Picart's 16th book was published with Palgrave Press in November 2013. Caroline Joan S. Picart, Critical Race Theory and Copyright in American Dance: Whiteness as Status Property (Palgrave-Macmillan, November 2013).

Dr. Picart's 15th book was published by Palgrave Press in July 2012. Caroline Joan S. Picart and John Edgar Browning, authors and eds., Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology (Palgrave-Macmillan, July 2012). (Purchase on Amazon)

Picart and Browning's book is a learned and, in places, intriguing study of monsters, with an emphasis on motion pictures, by established authorities in various fields. The editors divide the pieces more or less evenly into seven sections: “General Theories of Monstrosity” (five essays, including an extract from Stephen Prince's “Dread, Taboo and The Thing,” first published in Wide Angle, 1988); “Teratologies of Nationality and Race” (three essays); “In between Fear and Desire” (three); “Queer Theory and Boundary Crossings” (two essays, one of them Judith [Jack] Halberstam's “Seed of Chucky: Transbiology and the Horror Flick”); “Criminology, Law, and Teratologies: Between the Real and the Reel” (four essays); “The Biological Monstrous and Gender: The Human-Animal-Machine Divides” (four); and “ Teratologies and Ethics” (three, e.g., an extract from Dominick LaCapra's “Reopening the Question of the Human and the Animal”). The varied choice of authors and subjects leaves nothing to be desired. In addition, a 14-page bibliography, a 13-page index, and notes on contributors add an appropriate finish to this valuable resource. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals. -- R. Blackwood, emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago

Dr. Picart delivered a paper, "Theorizing Resistance in Relation to Copyright and Choreography," at the 2013 LatCrit Conference in Chicago on October 5, 2013.View Photo Album

2013 — Dr. Picart was awarded the Book Awards for Art Law and Cross-Cultural Legal Counseling for Summer 2012.View Photo Album

2013 — Dr. Picart successfully defended her Master of Arts thesis (as part of a joint Juris Doctor of Law and Master of Arts in Women's Studies) on February 7, 2013.View Photo Album

2013 — Dr. Picart exhibited 6 works at the University of Florida Art Law Society Student and Faculty Exhibit, March 2013View Photo Album

Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart, "Attempting to Go Beyond Forgetting: The Legacy of the Tokyo IMT and Crimes of Violence Against Women as a Military Strategy," University of Pennsylvania's East Asia Law Review, January, 2012 (available at: http://www.pennealr.com/archive/vol7.html). This essay was nominated for the International Law Student Association Best Essay Award

2012 — Dr. Picart was awarded the Book Awards (given to the top student) for: American Legal Thought, European and International Copyright, International Trade Law, Trade and Human Rights. She was also a part of the Dean's List.View Photo Gallery

Dr. Picart was Editor-in-Chief of the Florida Journal of International Law (2011-2012), and co-edited FJIL Issues 23.1, 23.2; 24.2; Editor-in-Chief of FJIL Issues 23.3; 24.1, thus bringing the journal back on schedule.

Dr. Picart was Communications Executive and Former Articles Editor and Research Editor for the Journal of Technology Law and Policy (2010-2012). As Articles Editor, she filled the JTLP Spring 2011 issue in two and a half months.

Dr. Picart was invited to present her research at a recent law conference: Works in Progress: “Exotic” Whiteness as Status Property in Fuller’s Skirt Dance and Graham’s Modern Dances, Latino and Latina Critical Theory (LatCrit) XVI, San Diego, CA, Oct. 8, 2011. She was one of twenty students nationally invited to present at LatCrit XVI.

Caroline J.S. Picart, "Copyright, Choreography and Critical Race Theory: Whiteness as Status Property in Balanchine's Ballets," Arizona State University Law Review blog, April 14, 2011. Arizona State University Law Review article.

Dr. Picart published a co-authored book review with Marlowe Fox, of Marouf A. Hasian, Jr.'s Rhetorical Vectors of Memory in National and International Holocaust Trials (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2006), Southern Journal of Communication, Vol. 76, No. 3, July-August 2011.